Mother of three Ruby Tuesday Matthews accused of being a terrible influence on young women after getting a Korean facelift at 33

Ruby Tuesday Matthews has been slammed by followers after she underwent an endoscopic facelift in Korea despite only being 33 years old. 

The mother-of-three is currently sharing her recovery on Instagram after getting the $16,000 procedure done last Friday at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul. 

She told fans she wanted to be 'transparent' about getting a facelift, but many have criticised her for being a bad influence on young women. 

The backlash kicked off this week when Ruby began sharing videos showing her swollen and bruised face as she goes through post-surgery recovery. 

She also shared a montage clip of herself 'hopping on a 14-hour flight to Korea' and going through the surgery process.   

'Could've said nothing and quietly entered my Benjamin Button era, but transparency felt more interesting,' she captioned the video. 

'People will have opinions, the media will have headlines, and I'll keep sharing the unfiltered reality of my life.'

Ruby went on to thank medical tourism provider Beauty Hopper and her surgeon Dr Moon Hyung Suk from Ilchi Plastic Surgery.  

Followers flocked to the comments to slam Ruby for receiving a facelift at such a young age, and for promoting it online.

'Kind of chic not to give young women a step by step guide to getting a facelift,' one person wrote.

'Can we stop normalising this?' another said, while someone else commented: 'Why are women getting facelifts at such a young age?'

Someone else penned a lengthy message 'to any young girls' watching Ruby's video, telling them they are 'beautiful, magical, and gorgeous' in their 'natural' skin. 

'No amount of facelifts or cosmetic procedures will ever change the way you actually see yourself,' they added.

'That's something only true inner work will do (like breath work, meditation, getting closer to Source/God/The Universe).' 

'Only then will you truly see your magnificent BEAUTY instead of constantly chasing external alterations that will only last a small amount of time until you're "needing" your next fix,' they added.

'WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL and we deserve to learn to truly feel that instead of using outside band-aids.'

Ruby responded to the message, saying she agreed with the message that 'young women should know their worth has absolutely nothing to do with how they look'.  

'But I also think we need to show them that two things can be true at once. You can deeply love yourself, respect your ageing body, know your worth and still choose to change something simply because it makes you feel good,' the influencer argued.

'Self-love doesn't require rejecting Botox, surgery, makeup or anything else and having them doesn't mean you're broken or chasing validation. 

'I'm not trying to become someone else or outrun ageing. Life has left a few chapters on my face that I'd happily stop rereading, and I wanted to feel refreshed. 

'That choice can exist alongside self-acceptance, not instead of it.' 

While some criticised Ruby over her Korean facelift, others praised the influencer for being transparent about the process and recovery. 

'I have been LIVING for this content and updates! [Applause emoji] for being so open and honest xxx,' one commented.

'Appreciate you sharing your journey,' another said, while someone else wrote: 'Unfiltered sharing is so courageous. Good on you.'

'Let's be honest, if many women had the funds to do this (myself included), we would do it. Haters gonna hate,' noted one user. 

Ruby has said she underwent an endoscopic facelift because she wanted to have 'snatched skin again' without changing her physical appearance. 

The surgery is considered to be minimally invasive, as doctors use a tiny camera with small cuts hidden in the hairline to lift and tighten certain areas of the face.  

'Initially, I thought I'd also need eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) to get that more refreshed, awake look,' she explained on social media.

'After my consultation, my surgeon felt the endoscopic lift alone could achieve what I wanted, so we decided not to do the bleph.

'The goal was never to change the way I look. I wanted to keep my face and my features. Just look a little more refreshed and awake, while addressing some of the volume loss through my face.'

Ruby spent four hours under the knife and shared videos of her returning to the clinic the following morning to have her drain and face tape removed. 

However, she said she ran into some difficulty and had to make an emergency visit to an Apple store because the facial recognition on her iPhone wouldn't allow her to access her mobile while her face was swollen and bruised. 

'I literally had to go to the Apple store in my pyjamas looking like this and reboot my whole phone because there was no way it was recognising my face, and I have so many locks on my phone that I couldn't do it without face recognition,' she said.

Ruby spent the first three days post-surgery with a very swollen and bruised face, struggling to talk and open her mouth properly on the first day. 

'My face is double the size normally; apparently, this is the worst day, so let's hope it starts going down tomorrow,' she said on the third day.

The influencer then showed fans the small incisions that were made in her hairline and said she was happy to see there were no scars on her face. 

'It's actually insane I've only got that tiny dot there...no scars on my face, literally just in my hairline and they're neat as a pin,' she said.

'I look absolutely bat s*** crazy, so I'm just going to have to trust the process.'

She went on to say she was being open and honest about her facelift journey 'because there's no point pretending that I just woke up 10 years younger'.